The following are general references on various subjects relevent to Cellerator, signal transduction modeling, and mathematical
modeling in biology. The list is not exhaustive and there are lots of other excellent books on these subjects. The texts listed are
merely starting points for students interested in learning more about one of these particular areas.

The annotations are purely my own and do not reflect the official opinion of JPL, NASA or Caltech. We can not provide copies of these books. Check your local library!

Edelstein-Keshet, Leah (1988) Mathematical models in biology. Random House. (Undergraduate; requires some background in differential equations. A little dated but the best place to start if you are new to mathematical biology and don' remember calculus very well).

Coddington, Earl A (1989) An introduction to ordinary differential equations (reprint of 1958 editions). Dover Publications. (Undergraduate. No prior knowldege of DE required but easier to read if you have already completed a text such as Boyce and DiPrima)

Hurewicz, Witold (2002) Lectures on ordinary differential equations (reprint of 1958 edition). SIAM Press. (Undergraduate. No prior knowldege of DE required but easier to read if you have already completed a text such as Boyce and DiPrima)

Differential Equations - Nonlinear Dynamics

Guckenheimer, John and Holmes, Beverly (1983) Nonlinear oscillations, dynamical systems, and bifurcations of vector fields. Springer-Verlag. (Theoretical, graduate, fairly difficult, but possible to read in a first course in dynamical systems for a student who already has an advanced graduate course in the theory of ODE, e.g., at the level of Coddington and Levinson.)

Hale, J and Kocak, H (1991) Dynamics and Bifurcations. Springer-Verlag. (Undergraduate; more difficult and somewhat more advanced than Strogatz; but readable as a first course on bifurcations).

Strogatz, Steven H (1994) Nonlinear dynamics and chaos, with applications to physics, biology and engineering. Perseus Books. (Undergraduate. The absolutely best-ever written introduction to the subject. No prior background required, but some knowledge of DEs useful. A first course in dynamical systems and chaos.)